INDEX. 



Italian workers, development 



of, 87 , . , 



Items, various, 149* 

 Kentucky Bne-kecpers' Asso- 



ciit'ou, 137 

 King birds, 44 [21o 



KtUiler's discovery, 17S. 198, 

 Lani^-stroth hive, 149, 28(5 

 Langftrotli's patent, 219, 288 

 Landois, new theory, 38, 43 

 Liberian honey bee, 20 

 Life of a worker bee, KSS 

 LoDc; search, 174 

 Luck in bee-kee|iing, 103 

 Make of hives, 239 

 Management of artificial colo- 

 nies, 149 

 Mai>le trees, 160 

 M.irkius's of Italian workers, 

 Matters, various, 149 [58 



Me id, 8 [cipe. It 



Mead, Queen Elizabeth's R-- 

 Melilot clover, 17, 24, 100, 166, 

 Meroi)s apiaster, 40 [223 



Mice, 5 



Milkpan vs. Honeypot, 237 

 Mishaps, 5 

 Mona's apiary, 1 

 More liglit, 2il 

 7\roi'e questions, *632 

 More seeming puzzles, 113 

 Moths, 108 

 Moth's eggs, 13 

 Movable sides an'' ends, 38 

 MouMy (■omI)S, 195 

 Mount, Ida honey, 55 

 Mullein tops fur bee-liobs, 27 



59, 230 

 Multiplication of stocks, 44 

 Mustard plant for bee pastur- 

 age, l()i), 217 

 Narl)onne lioney, 55 

 Kew kind of bee-bol), 230 

 New Theory by Dr. Landois, 

 38, 43 [147 



New theory, R. Eickford's 

 Northwestern Bee kerpcrs' 



Association, 59, 100 

 Nucleus co'imies, 43, 03, 93 

 Numerical force of stocks, 154 

 Oat meal for bee feed, 173 

 OI)iPCtinns :inswered, 216 

 Objections to fixed frames con- 

 sidered, 191 

 Observations and remarks, 165 

 Occurrence, singular, 5 

 Old Italijin bee, ^73 

 Open top ov clos(!d frames, 234 

 Overstocking, 90 

 Painted surfaces, 133, 167 

 Parent stock, to find, 188 

 Paris Exposition, 57 

 Pasturage, 19, 151: 166 

 Parthenoivenesis, 81, 101, 121 

 Patent hrves, 120, 157, 219, 



235, 238 

 Patent monopolies, 238 

 Personal observations, 218 

 Points considered, 93 

 Poisonous honey, 55, 134, 170 



Polanisia purpurea, 71, 220 

 Popular whiojs, 16 [231 



Practical bee-cu!ture, 181,201, 

 Preservation of combs, 37, 38 

 Probabilities, 233 [120 



Producing fertile Vt'orkeis, 



163, 339 

 Productiveness of Italian 



bees, 93 

 Profits of bee-keei)ing, 134 

 Profits of Italian bees, 117 

 Profitable apiary, 99, 153, 205 

 Pioposals wauted, 73, 130 

 Puriiy of drones, 109 

 Purity of Ittilian bees, 19, 30, 



34, 49, 51, 60, 90, 129, 133 

 Queen cell, side opened, 49 

 Queen Elizabeth's recipe for 



mead, 11 

 Queens, fertile, 221 

 Queens, introducing, 6, 40, 



48, 73, 210 

 Queen raising. 12, 63 

 Queens, ri'serve, 43, 168 

 Queens, saving, 50 

 Queens, superseding 93 

 Queens, two in one hive, 25, 

 Query, 154 [113, ISf:- 



Questions and answers, 13, 



28, 86, 153, 167, 18t», 212, 



317 [137 



Riising ([ueeu bees, 63, 71. 

 Ratel.lll [153 



Receptacles for surplus hon^y, 

 Reconnoiterers, 18, 211, 312 

 Red clover and Italian bees, 



75. 80, 93, 137, 154 159, 160, 



191, 340 

 Regicidal attacks, 128 

 Renii'.rks and suggestions, 2l3 

 Remarks on a reply, 231 

 Reply to " more seeming puz- 

 zles," 158- 

 Reply to questioii, 28 

 Reproduction of bees, 73 

 Requisites of a good hive, 3l7 

 Resi-iwe queens, 43, 168 

 Robbing bees, l65 

 Room for surplus honey, 206 

 Sainfoin, 166 

 Saving queens, 50 

 Scientific bee-culture, 53 

 Scouts, 18. 211, 313 

 Second swarms, tioubling, 40 

 Seaming puzzles. 113 

 Sending queens by mail, l99 

 Shaliow hives, 230 

 bide-opening hives, 77, 110, 



149 [173 



Singular cases, 50, 68. 78, 154, 

 Sintiular occurrence, 154 

 Size'of hives, 179, 184 [64 



Smoke of linen or cotton rags, 

 Smoke of rotton wood, 30 

 Snails and slugs, 18 

 Solulion of a query, 212 

 Spider and bee, 238 

 Spring feed for bees, 173 

 Statistics, 62, 70 ■ [113, 128 

 Straight combs, 12, 40, 55, 93, 



Strange occurrence, m 

 Storing honey, 114 [152 



Success in bee-keeping, 79, 

 Success with Italian bees, 160 

 Summer feeding bees. 111 

 Superseding queens, 93, 108 

 Surfaces, i)ainted, 132, 167 

 Surplus honey boxes, room 



for, 206 

 Surplus honey, 54, 150 

 Surplus honey receptacles, 155 

 Swarm settles oa a hat, 68 

 Swarms cieserting brood, 78 

 Swarming, curious instances 



of, 166, 311 

 Systems, combining, 7 

 Transferring ))ees, 39 

 Transferring combs, 338 

 Temper of bees, 196 

 Tenacity of life, 70 

 Test of purity, 51 

 That discovery, 300 

 Theories, new, 38, 43, 147 

 Theses on bee-culture, 59 

 Trebizond honey, 55, l34 

 True parthenogenesis in bees, 

 81, 101, 121 " ■ [158 



Two fertile queens in a hive, 

 Ukraine, bee-keeping in the. 

 Uniting bees, 71, 99,139 [113 

 Upward ventilation, l69, 218, 



328, 235 

 Use of a wasp's nest, 212 

 Various items, 131 

 Various maWei's, 149 

 Varrouian Tlieory, 144, 199 

 Vegetable wax, 63 

 Ventilated hive, 26 

 Ventilation and watering, 192 

 Ventilation, upward, l*-)9, 218 

 Ventilating bee-hives, 26, 187, 

 Vexed questions, 186 [22 



Virginia, bee-keeping in, 137 

 Viverra mellivora. 111- 

 Voluntary contractility, 115, 

 Wanted, 200 [144, 158 



Want of air, 228 

 Wasp's nest, 213 

 Wasting wax, 80 

 Water for b- es, 169 

 Watering and ventilating, 193 

 AVax, 61 [13 



Wax, its source and nature. 

 Wax-secreting apparatus, 19 

 Weight 01 bees. 25 

 Weight of hives, 18 

 What every bee-keeper should 



know, 168, 136 

 Wenham, bees banished, 197 

 Winteiing bees'. 68, 91, 136, 

 153, 180, 193, 195, 309, 3l0, 

 324, 235, 337, 338, 389 [91 

 Wintering bees in the ground. 

 Wintering bees in Langstrotli 



hives, 96 

 Winter supply of honey, 16 

 Wisconsin Bee-keepers' Asso- 

 ciation. 176 



